[OFFICIAL] - MPC X & MPC Live Photos, Specs & Pricing

Fanu wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jDECfBkgA8
Ren vs X

Now that's the type of comparison/review vids that I like to see! NO Akai marketing hype... just a honest comparison done by an honest tester/user. Good stuff!!

Ren looks dated from early '90s next to the X.

Someone said you can't read an external hard drive from the X/Live, that's not correct.
You can read a usb thumb drive then you can read an external hard drives. So you can scroll through your sounds from your external source.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrYJcVTZREY&t=278s

Ill-Green wrote:Ren looks dated from early '90s next to the X.

LOL true, man I am so glad I didn't go with that Ren. I really didn't like it, I'd rather rock a 2000xl.

The X looks like it has the 4000 look, 5000 look. I see the QLink knobs multiplied with each model now the X has 16!

Emailed to the Akai guy I talked to earlier today and he confirmed X will be coming a month after Live.

SOS Magazine has a review of the Live. Pdf for one pound. Magazine will be out next week I guess.
http://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/akai-mpc-live

Dj Bo wrote:SOS Magazine has a review of the Live. Pdf for one pound. Magazine will be out next week I guess.
http://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/akai-mpc-live

Would love to know whether they've included the software in the review; that's what I'm mostly interested in.

Fanu wrote:Emailed to the Akai guy I talked to earlier today and he confirmed X will be coming a month after Live.

Makes me a bit sad.

On the other hand, those of us who are interested in the X will have a good idea of its capabilities/workflow by the time it gets released, since YouTube will hopefully be flooded with user vids.

When that time comes, the only thing we won't have a clue about will be the quality of the internals/casing/buttons/converters.

Can't wait to find out.

[quote="Ill-Green"]Ren looks dated from early '90s

Wasn't that the intent .

rookie wrote:

Ill-Green wrote:Ren looks dated from early '90s

Wasn't that the intent .

I don't think "vintage mode" would compensate for the Ren's look but if that was the intent, its pretty dated.

I remember being interested in the FLY at the time. I told Akai, that should've been a standalone touchscreen MPC. That looked ahead of its time. Not saying I was the only one suggesting it, because here we are; definitely there was demand. But the FLY was something I wished for, too bad it got canned before seeing light just can't make controllers for the ever changing iPad. I think Akai began seeing what we were seeing and came up with two titans.

Hi!

Signed up just to ask this:

Any guesses – would I be able to sequence the MPC Live from an external sequencer? Use notes to trigger different samples, CC to affect pitch/cutoff/etc... I know this hasn't probably been the case with the Studio, or has it?

starmanwarz wrote:the only thing we won't have a clue about will be the quality of the internals/casing/buttons/converters.

It´s going to be a pile of junk, that´s for sure. Nukai have always used the cheapest components...and since Jack is a greedy bastard that won´t change anytime soon!

**** wrote:

starmanwarz wrote:the only thing we won't have a clue about will be the quality of the internals/casing/buttons/converters.

It´s going to be a pile of junk, that´s for sure. Nukai have always used the cheapest components...and since Jack is a greedy bastard that won´t change anytime soon!

Well if they are anything like the 2500/1000 I'll stay the **** away from them. Hoping for some quality components though.

josker wrote:Hi!

Signed up just to ask this:

Any guesses – would I be able to sequence the MPC Live from an external sequencer? Use notes to trigger different samples, CC to affect pitch/cutoff/etc... I know this hasn't probably been the case with the Studio, or has it?

Why would you do this, exactly, considering Live itself is a sequencer, and there's probably cheaper options for that?

Fanu wrote:

josker wrote:Hi!

Signed up just to ask this:

Any guesses – would I be able to sequence the MPC Live from an external sequencer? Use notes to trigger different samples, CC to affect pitch/cutoff/etc... I know this hasn't probably been the case with the Studio, or has it?

Why would you do this, exactly, considering Live itself is a sequencer, and there's probably cheaper options for that?

Fair question – I thought this'd come up

I have a killer sequencer I'm used to that does stuff like probability, easy flams etc., so it'd be a nice option to have, being able to sequence the Live from that. At the very least, I'd hope the Live responds to program changes in some sensible way... Live's sequencer would probably see much action, but for my specific case external sequencing would be very nice to have.